The strong message, the articles in this issue appear to convey, is that constitutional democracy is confronting an epochal crisis. The widening chasm between normative aspiration and institutional capacity seems to threaten the very foundations of legal legitimacy. On one hand, law remains normatively ambitious, but institutionally, it is fragile. If we examine across jurisdictions, the vocabulary of rights, justice, and equality continues to expand, but the capacity of institutions to implement and protect these ideals has increasingly weakened. In this respect, and at this pivotal moment, the dissonance between aspiration and performance is, in my view, no longer a marginal concern but a defining feature of modern governance. In this regard, the central challenge, therefore, is not whether constitutional norms survive in text but whether they can remain legitimate in practice. I write this editorial in that spirit of inquiry. This editorial aims to examine what sustains the legitimacy of law in an era when its instruments of enforcement, bureaucratic agents, and even its digital architectures appear to be under unprecedented strain.